Children learn the #iamchild dance routine created by Israeli-Turkish therapist and journalist Michal Bardavid. (photo from iamchildproject.com) There’s a new dance routine on social-media sites that has five catchy poses and one enormously powerful message. The #iamchild dance-therapy routine is…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack at the Chabad House. To Rivlin’s left is First Lady Nechama Rivlin. (photo from Israel Government Press Office via Ashernet) Israeli President…
Sandra Lawson is studying at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. (photo from Sandra Lawson) Sandra Lawson, an African-American lesbian who converted to Judaism after being raised in a secular home, is now studying to be a rabbi at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, in…
A letter of introduction, written and signed by the Rambam (Maimonides) in the 12th century, which is part of the Discarded History exhibition that will be opening in April 2017 at Cambridge University. Visitors will be able to see a small…
Protesters at Oberlin College. (photo by Pteranadons via Wikimedia Commons) (This is Part 1 of a two-part series. The second article examines the student-as-customer approach at universities and its relation to identity politics on campus.) New York Times columnist Frank Bruni…
The Hon. Stockwell Day, right, and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada senior vice-president Rabbi Yael Eckstein with a Ukrainian Jewish family who were among the 220 that the Fellowship brought to Israel on Sept. 29. (photo from…
Matthew Boroditsky with some of the children he met at Project Somos. (photo Matthew Boroditsky) In life, we all face hurdles – and how we react to these trials can come to define us. This story exemplifies that. Three years…
The European Parliament. (photo by Treehill via Wikimedia Commons) Dr. Sharon Pardo is a member of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the director of the Centre for the Study of European Politics…
Young community members in Harlem participate in the painting of a shipping container inside of which fresh produce is grown. (photo by Nick Smith) Seed Street, a hydroponic farming venture and food-justice initiative that grows fresh produce inside shipping containers,…
The Choral Temple in Bucharest. (photo from Wikimedia Commons) We spent two weeks in Romania in the late summer of 2015, also visiting Bulgaria. We took this trip partly because it was an area of vibrant Jewish life from Roman days…
